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To Download and Install the Smart Editor Pro software
- Visit http://www.activecast.activecore.com/downloads/sepro.zip
- Choose Save
- Select an appropriate folder to save the file to, or save to your Desktop
- Locate the newly downloaded sepro.zip file and double click on it. If you do not have Winzip your computer, you will have to visit http://www.winzip.com to download and install it first.
- Unzip and install the software by following the directions in Winzip
- You should now have an icon that looks like this
 on your desktop
- If you also have an icon that looks like this
This portion of the software can be ignored
- Double click on the ‘Smart Editor 3.0 Freeware’ icon on your desktop to begin creating your HTML file.
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To Create an HTML document in Smart Editor
- Double click on ‘Smart Editor 3.0 Freeware’ icon on your desktop to begin.
- Go to File à New Document
- Click on ‘html – Html Source Document’ and click OK
- You should now see the following lines of code:<HEAD>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-us">
<TITLE> Title </TITLE>
<meta name="GENERATOR" content="Smart Editor Professional">
<meta name="Author" content="Your Name">
</HEAD>
<BODY>
</BODY>
</HTML> Do not worry too much about this code and what it means. This is just the basic structure of a generic HTML file. Everything that you will need to do to send an HTML email should end up between the <BODY> and </BODY> lines.
- Beneath this code you will see these buttons:
- Click on the Save & Preview button and save the file in a folder. You can rename the file if you wish, but keep the .html extension (ie. you can call the file newfile.html or abcde.html). For simplicity, these instructions will always refer to the file as newfile.html. NOTE: you should save all graphics as well as your new HTML file in the same folder.
- The page you see should be blank to start, but you can now toggle between tabs (just above the white space on your monitor) like this:
If there are other tabs in this area, these can be ignored.
- Click on the newfile.html tab
- Then click on the Design button near the Save & Preview button you clicked earlier.
- You can now enter any text on the screen (you may cut and paste from another application). This text may be manipulated in size, style, or color by using the buttons near the top of the screen.
- NOTE: The size of text does not coincide with the pixel size like most software products use. In this case, you can essentially choose any size between 1 (smallest) and 7 (largest).
- NOTE: Try and use the more common fonts such as Arial, Verdana, or Times New Roman as these should be viewable as displayed on your screen by most recipients.
- Click the Save & Preview button to view your work at any time and then click on the newfile.html button to go back to the design mode.
- INSERTING A GRAPHIC à From the design mode, go to the top menu and click on Insert à Picture and click on the Browse button beside the Picture Source field. Here you can also select Alternate Text (this will display if the picture is not available) and experiment with the Layout and Spacing settings.
- INSERTING A TABLE à From the design mode, go the the top menu and click on Table à Insert Table. Change the number of columns and rows as desired. You can experiment with the “border=1 cellPadding=1 cellSpacing=1 width=75%” numbers as well. Basically border a number that represents the thickness of the border of your table (for no border, choose 0) and width how wide the table spans across the entire email page.
- INSERTING A LINK GOING TO A WEBPAGE à If you wanted a link that says Click Here and went to www.activecore.com when clicked, you would type the words Click Here in the desired place in Design mode. Next, use your mouse to highlight those words. Next go to Insert à Hyperlink. In the URL: field, type http://www.activecore.com and click OK.
- INSERTING A LINK WHICH SENDS AN EMAIL à If you wanted a link that says Customer Support and went sends an email activecast@activecore.com, you would type the words Customer Support in the desired place in Design mode. Next, use your mouse to highlight those words. Next go to Insert à Hyperlink. In the Type field, drop down and click on Mailto: and in the URL: field, type mailto:activecast@activecore.com and click OK.
- INSERTING A MERGE FIELD à If your Excel spreadsheet, csv, or txt file has the following headers: email, name, firstname and you wanted to merge the firstname field so that your email will say “Dear Rob;” in one email and “Dear Sarah;” in another, you would simply type “Dear {$field.firstname};” in the desired place. This will show as typed in your work, however, the merging will be done by the ActiveCore team.
- HOW TO HANDLE ATTACHMENTS à Attachments are becoming less popular with email since many of the emails are being rejected on the receiver’s side. If you have an attachment that requires sending, you can host the file on your website and just link to it as per the Instruction #16 above. If you cannot host the attachment please send the attachment to ActiveCore when sending your email job to us and make note of it in the Special Instructions.
- NOTE: It is not advisable to just create one big graphic and send it along. This creates bandwidth issues for dial-up users and may get inadvertently deleted by spam filters.
- Now Save the document by going to File à Save Document. You now should have all of the file ActiveCore needs to transmit your email broadcast. ActiveCore will need the html file you created as well as all graphic files and all attachments uploaded to the website.
- If you do not have a UserID and Password for the website yet, please email activecast@activecore.com.
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